Johannes Kinder @jkinder.bsky.social · 13/08/2025USENIX Security kicking off in Seattle! #usesec25 130
Johannes Kinder @jkinder.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Full paper: www.plai.ifi.lmu.de/publications...plai.ifi.lmu.de 000
Johannes Kinder @jkinder.bsky.social · 11/08/2025BLens achieves a 42% increase in F1 score on unseen projects, also improving RougeL, Bleu, and VarCLR for function names. Performance metrics tell only part of the story, however, and the paper shows how even seemingly mispredicted functions can provide valuable information to a reverse engineer. 100
Johannes Kinder @jkinder.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Our model architecture has two main components, COMBO for pretraining and LORD for finetuning and inference. COMBO uses a contrastive captioning loss (inspired by CoCa), whereas LORD uses an MLM objective to optimize the generation of function names while reducing false positives. 100
Johannes Kinder @jkinder.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Our intuition is that naming binary functions is similar to image captioning, with function names and code as two modalities for the same concept. Inspired by the multimodal image-text model GIT, we embed functions into patches using three pre-trained function embeddings (DEXTER, CLAP, PalmTree). 100
Johannes Kinder @jkinder.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Binary reversing is hard. One approach to helping is to generate plausible names for binary functions using machine learning models. But state-of-the-art models based on the idea of translating assembly to English struggle with generalizing across projects and may generate misleading names. 100
Johannes Kinder @jkinder.bsky.social · 11/08/2025🛬 I'm at USENIX Security in Seattle this week, where on Friday at 2pm my former postdoc Tristan Benoit will be presenting our paper "BLens: Contrastive Captioning of Binary Functions using Ensemble Embedding," joint work with Yunru Wang and Moritz Dannehl from my group. Here's the gist: 141
Johannes Kinder @jkinder.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Day 1 of #ACNS at Munich Urban Colab is underway! 110
Reposted by Johannes KinderCharles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 09/06/2025DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors. 113110852658
Johannes Kinder @jkinder.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Interesting case where it seems like precise floating point support in SMT solvers would help with generating a working exploit. 000
Reposted by Johannes KinderClémentine Maurice @bloody-tangerine.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Haven't seen this on Bluesky yet: S&P 2027 will take place in Montreal, Canada! 22817
Johannes Kinder @jkinder.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Apart from an exciting main program with keynote speakers Shweta Shinde @shwetashinde.bsky.social and Bart Preneel, we will have nine workshops ranging from IoT security to post-quantum cryptography, a poster reception, and a conference dinner at the iconic Löwenbräukeller. 000
Johannes Kinder @jkinder.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Early bird registration deadline for #ACNS2025 in #Munich closes on April 30, register now to secure the reduced rate! The 23rd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security will be held from 23 to 26 June 2025. acns2025.fordaysec.deacns2025.fordaysec.deACNS 2025 220
Reposted by Johannes KinderShriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 25/02/2025They already tried, with MOOCs. We were told we'd need only like 5 universities to produce "the best" content, the rest could shut down and everyone could learn from MOOCs instead. Which showed exactly how much they understood about education, learning, humans, and other things not measured in bits. 49816
Johannes Kinder @jkinder.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Volodymyr Lutchenko of Ukrainian telecom operator KyivStar shares his experience of defending networks in the face of persistent physical and cyber attacks at #mcsc in a chilling call for increased preparedness 020
Reposted by Johannes Kinderhalvarflake.bsky.social @halvarflake.bsky.social · 22/01/2025If Trump is removing all environmental regulation, how about we undo the "memory safe languages" mandate? I mean, how is mandating "memory safe languages" compatible with freedom of speech anyhow? Enough policing of speech! Raw pointers for raw milk, our youth needs to be hardened by strcpy. 5457
Johannes Kinder @jkinder.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Learned about Futexes while teaching operating systems this year, so it‘s cool to see this work, and of course to see model checking going strong! 281
Reposted by Johannes KinderKen Shirriff @righto.com · 25/11/2024I recently saw an amazing Navajo rug at the National Gallery of Art. It looks abstract at first, but it is a detailed representation of the Intel Pentium processor. Called "Replica of a Chip", it was created in 1994 by Marilou Schultz, a Navajo/Diné weaver and math teacher. 1/n 352913911
Reposted by Johannes KinderLukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Effects of ransomware attacks on hospital operations and patient outcomes. Claim of death following cyberattacks/ransomware. Warning: not direct observations, just estimations. “We estimate that ransomware killed 42-67 patients” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 22922
Johannes Kinder @jkinder.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Hello World! Finally deleted my account on "the other site", curious to see what this place will become. 070
